Weakness: The Power Ring has a limited energy charge, and can run out mid-battle if too heavily used (+1)

Stress

Physical 6

Mental 7

Social 5

Wealth 4

Gear

Common street clothes

Green Lantern Uniform (formed by the ring)

The Silver Surfer for Strands of Fate

One of my favorite characters ever, it’s Surfy!

This was a tricky writeup. There’s no equivalent in Strands of the old Advanced Marvel Super Heroes ‘Power Stunt’, but I think it’s fair to allow a PC to flex their powers in new and different ways just by spending a Fate Point. This also allows characters to use Powers they maybe didn’t have a budget for, that they don’t actually use in the fiction that much, and/or that Strands doesn’t actually have stats for.

One example of such a Power is PC-capable non-vehicle FTL flight. In many ways, FTL flight is just an extension of the Fate fractal; your campaign extends through space? Okay, spend a Fate Point and tell me how you’re getting to the next star system. Done, simple.

Another thing I’ve been hand-waving away with a lot of PC writeups is secret identities. You don’t have to buy the Alias Advantage to have a secret ID, of course, and many of these characters don’t really need the extra Aspects, so I don’t think there’s a real need. If you really want, though, you can tweak the characters I post so they have a the Alias Advantage. I’d love to see alternate versions of any of these characters.

Cosplayer unknown, sorry.

The Surfer is an absolute monster in terms of points. A lot of his Powers could probably be folded back into Control (Cosmic Energy), but many of them he can just do, easily, so it doesn’t seem right that he should need to roll for them and risk failure.

Character Name: The Silver Surfer / Norrin Radd
Player Name: Various

Details

XP 0

PL Infinity- Class

FP/Refresh 6 (4 sold back for Advantage Pts.)

TL 6

Aspects

Defining Aspect

Former Herald of Galactus, turned Sentinel of the Spaceways

Character Aspects

Ambition: To soar through space, exploring and protecting the innocent.

Background: Dreamer and born explorer from a utopian planet that had turned its back on the stars, Zenn-La.

Conviction: “All life is sacred!”

Disadvantages: Feels lonely and distant from other life, since he gained his awesome powers.

Specialty Aspects

Exceptional Skill: Blinding Speed in the Air (Agility)

Foes: Galactus, Thanos, various warmongering aliens (Persuasion)

Gear: His cosmic surfboard (Resources)

Help: The Fantastic Four, Mantis, Nova, the original Defenders (Persuasion)

Inferior Skill: Widely feared as a former Herald of Galactus (Persuasion)

Physical Abilities

Agility 4

Endurance 4

Perception 3

Strength 4

Mental Abilities

Craft 0

Knowledge 3

Reasoning 3

Willpower 3

Social Abilities

Deception 1

Empathy 4

Persuasion 1

Resources 0

Power Abilities

Affinity – The Power Cosmic 5

Power Source: Silver Metallic Skin

Advantages

Experienced *4 (-8, Increased Abilities, SoP pg. 16)

The Power Cosmic (Total -24 -34 = -58):

Armor (-1, SoP pg. 43)

Modifiers: Improved Armor (-1)

Passive (-2)

Breathless (-2, SoP pg. 58).

Control (Cosmic Energy, -7, SoP pg. 154)

Flight (-3, SoP pg. 72)

Modifiers: Super-Fast and Agile (-5)

Lifeless (-3, SoP pg. 91)

Power Attack – Ranged (-2, SoP pg. 114)

Modifiers:

Beam (-1)

Improved Weapon Rating (-1)

Long Range (-1)

Super Agility (World Class, -8, SoP pg. 134)

Modifier: Passive (-2)

Super Endurance (World Class, -5, SoP pg. 135)

Modifier: Passive (-2)

Super-Strength (World Class, -6, SoP pg. 136)

Modifier: Passive (-2)

Transmute Matter or Energy (-5, SoP pg. 148)

Weakness: The Surfer begins to lose all his powers when he’s trapped away from cosmic energy, such as trapped in a lead-lined box (+1)